Button group with horizontal alignment

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Florian Berzsenyi
Florian Berzsenyi on 9 Nov 2022
Edited: Goncalo on 25 Jul 2024
Simple question: How can I create a button group with buttons aligned horizontally right next to, and not vertically below each other? I would like to create a group of radio button, and could not find any properties - like "Alignment" - that might do the trick.
DEFAULT BEHAVIOR DESIRED FUNCTION / BEHAVIOR
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Nikhilesh
Nikhilesh on 18 Nov 2022
Hi Florian,
Although there is no alignment settings in the panel you can always select them and arrange as per your need.
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Florian Berzsenyi
Florian Berzsenyi on 18 Nov 2022
this is true for the AppDesigner! I build my app programmatically.
I guess, I could manually arrange the radiobuttons with the Position property.
bg = uibuttongroup(fig,'Position',[137 113 123 85]);
% manually arrange radio button Position
rb1 = uiradiobutton(bg,'Position',[10 60 91 15]);
rb2 = uiradiobutton(bg,'Position',[10 38 91 15]);
rb3 = uiradiobutton(bg,'Position',[10 16 91 15]);
I even have to do this because I cannot fit a uigridlayout container between uibuttongroup and uiradiobutton:
bg = uibuttongroup(layFigure);
layBtnGrp = uigridlayout(bg, [3, 1], 'RowHeight', {'fit', 'fit', 'fit'}, 'ColumnWidth', {'1x'});
%example for one radiobutton, further ones are identical
rb1 = uiradiobutton(layBtnGrp, 'Text', 'Item 1'); % ERROR: 'Parent' value must be specified as a ButtonGroup object.
rb1.Layout.Row = 1;
rb1.Layout.Col = 1;
I think that I will stick with Checkboxes with radiobutton-behaviour (self-implemented) for now.
Goncalo
Goncalo on 25 Jul 2024
Edited: Goncalo on 25 Jul 2024
I find button groups quite useless, basically it just gives you some pre-implemented functionality to manage button clicks but other than that it is super limiting. I always implement my button group so that I take advantage of gridlayouts.

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